OT: Comic Artist David Finch gives a shout out to Daz Studio

Umi no Senshi no Ishi

On his latest Monday night draw (10/4/21). Gives a brief positive mention in regards to comics with Daz. 

If Comics made with Daz are acceptable to him, that defnitively ends the debate for me (If 3d Art for comics are "real" comics).

ShortlegDoggo

That's awesome!

plasma_ring

That's rad! Use of Daz/Poser/3D models in general is kind of an open secret in any commercial art process where people need consistent volume of output fast, and it's cool to see people talking about it. It's becoming less of a secret because it's losing the stigma attached to it and being acknowledged as a necessary part of some professional workflows. The art director doesn't care if your helmet was painstakingly hand drawn; it needs to look good and they need it by end of day tomorrow.

IMO if the reason you do art is to explore craft and develop through specific skill challenges, then tracing or painting over a 3D model may not be "real" (but you're probably also not going to try to do it). If you're using art primarily as a communications medium and the whole thing doesn't work until something is complete and in front of your audience, there's a point at which it's not only self-sabotaging but precious to insist everything should be done from scratch. Splitting hairs over which techniques are authentic can also make it really easy to fall into defensive procrastination; sure you haven't gotten much done, but that's because you're hand crafting the whole thing. Comic book readers turn pages fast and may not ever get the warm fuzzies from that.

BeeMKay

"as a supplemental tool", Mr Finch says... around 20 minutes in. He's very diplomatic, really.

But seriously, I'm beyond caring by now.